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Silence is a much more severe barrier than violence to a volunteer who wishes to communicate. Some of the patients remain hunched over in their chairs or lying on the floor and will not even look up when they are spoken to. Confronted with this, even the most determined volunteers become discouraged. But if individual approaches fail, group activities--singing, playing checkers, strolling outside the ward--can sometimes draw a patient out of his shell and reaccustom him to communicating, at first without words, and later verbally...
...DESIRING, by Menno Gallie (192 pp.; Harper; $3.50) is a sort of border ballad about the frontier between England and Wales. Few Americans think of that line as much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves...
There is reason enough for this: Faust, in one way when done in German, in another in English, poses a language barrier not easily breached.* For non-Germans, again, even the playable but overlong first half creates theatrical problems not easily solved. No one word or phrase-dramatic poem, epic drama-adequately characterizes a work that, teeming with ideas and treading so much ground, cannot but be something of a patchwork...
...classroom, the prisoners must overcome three substantial impediments before making discernible progress. First, many of them are barely able to articulate complex ideas. Since contemporary society emphasizes facility with words, it is not surprising that the inability to communicate should be characteristics of its "failures." The second barrier the prisoners must overcome is a web of middle and lower class prejudices attaching unjustified associations to many of the words and concepts which they use in the classroom. For example, all mistresses in paintings or novels, no matter what their actual qualities, are instinctively taken to be street-walkers...
...stand against the Peking government, which suggested that Communist China's admission to the U.N. "may be impossible to prevent." But Stevenson in reality told only the gloomier half of a complicated story. Red China and its sympathizers in the U.N. must cross four separate legal barriers to win entrance, and at each barrier the U.S. could put up a strong and quite possibly a winning fight. The stages of battle...